Monday, October 21, 2013

Before PTI trolls pounce at me on
social media, let me declare I have nothing personal against Imran
Khan. Contrary to the perceptions of his zealots who think anyone questioning
the ‘Great IK’ is an IK-hater, I personally am a fan of Kaptaan’s cricket &
his philanthropic activities. I rather love him for his one-of-its-kind Cancer
Hospital SKMH and the Bradford-affiliated Namal University (& even
contribute to these regularly). However, of Khan and his ‘leadership’, that’s
about it for me. While Kaptaan – the
sportsman & philanthropist – has been a hero to me all along, Kaptaan – the
politician – is in my eyes, at best an epitome of naivety & at worst, a
disaster of a political leader.

While his ideals about politics,
corruption & governance have all been questionable & controversial, his
views on the issue of terrorism are a mix of naiveté, rhetoric, apologetic
confusion, hypocritical ignorance & brutal complacence. He is as confused
on the issue (or probably more) as any re-born Muslim with an aristocratic
background, elitist schooling & an Oxford degree can possibly be. While
terrorists kill at will everywhere in the land of the pure, here we have the
leader of Pakistan’s 2nd largest political party justifying their
killing spree on flimsy grounds. What makes his stand more dangerous is his
actual belief in what he feels is justification for the killings. Much can be
said about Khan’s stand on the issue of terrorism, however, he touches an
almost criminal level because of following reasons:

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1)Taliban Khan:
He thinks Taliban militants are engaged in a Jehad in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
How?

2)Terror Apologist:
He justifies the killings by militants by linking them to drone attacks. How
can attacks on mosques, churches or civilians & security forces be linked
to drones?

3)Coward:
He never condemns terrorism & terrorist attacks. Also he never sympathizes
with victims of such attacks e.g. Malala Yousafzai, Shia Hazaras &
Christians etc. Why?

5)Naïve:
Militants are savages – they slit throats of our soldiers and kill innocent
civilians. However, Imran Khan thinks they are ‘own people’ anguished by drones
& operations; that they can somehow be tamed. How naïve?

6)Taliban spokesman:
While militants attempt to take over our state, Imran Khan wants to legalize
their position & give them official recognition by asking for opening of
Taliban office.

7)Nonsensical:
Imran Khan wants peace talks with militants while ignoring the fact that
militants are not made for peace deals & all such previous attempts failed
due to them.

8)Ignorant or Hypocrite:
Imran Khan tells us military operations are not a solution to the militancy
problem and that operations will never succeed. He forgets that Swat was
cleared & peace restored through an operation. Similarly Bajaur, Mohmand,
Khyber, Tirah, Orakzai, Kurram & South Waziristan have all been cleared
through military operations. Imran Khan
also conveniently forgets that Sri Lanka ended terrorism on its soil through
war, not peace talks.

9)Brutal & Inhumane:
Imran Khan doesn’t feel the pain of Pakistanis who die at the hands of
terrorists.

10)Political
disaster: Imran Khan
wants Pakistan to shoot down drones & thus go into war against the
Americans, all this while forgetting that USA can send us to stone age,
militarily as well as economically.

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Imran Khan is a confused, if not
criminally apologetic, man & this fact becomes more dangerous when we see
a large section of youth follow him blindly. He is confusing the future of
Pakistan as he indirectly advocates taking Pakistan into the medieval world
where education is banned, women are restricted to homes & vigilantism is
order of the day. He will be more dangerous for Pakistan than even the past
rulers & his rival politicians..(Read Jawab-e-Shikwa for this Shikwa here)

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The writer is a tribesman from Bajaur
Agency (FATA) and tweets at @PTI_FATA .

(No official association with PTI)

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